All Health Service Journal articles in 10 March 2011 – Page 5
-
HSJ KnowledgeDealing fairly with redundancy in merging PCTs
Primary care trusts looking to pool resources and skills to protect services ahead of their abolishment in 2013 can mean difficult redundancy decisions have to be taken. Weightmans LLP employment associate Jessica Baden-Daintree looks at five key things employers need to do to avoid failure to consult and unfair dismissal ...
-
NewsTrauma system delay deaths 'unnecessary'
Patients died unnecessarily because establishing a centralised trauma system in the capital took too long, according to the chief executive of NHS London.
-
CommentMedia Watch: NHS managers dine out on free lunch
Did you go to the big match at the weekend? If so, who paid for the tickets?
-
HSJ KnowledgeDrawing on past lessons to improve future public health and wellbeing
While many of us recalibrate our new roles and responsibilities in the future NHS model, the opportunity to draw on the lessons of the past 20 years to inform our futures could help make sense of these times of great change and opportunity, and deliver improved health and wellbeing of ...
-
HSJ KnowledgeIndividual user outcomes help measure effectiveness and value
In health and social care the old measures of efficiency and productivity based on activity - input and output - and cost are no longer enough. The actual impact of the service/activity on patients and users is now central, write Seraphim Patel and colleagues.
-
NewsMost serious incidents rise by more than a fifth
A rising proportion of reported incidents in NHS organisations involve deaths and permanent injuries, latest figures from the National Patient Safety Agency indicate.
-
NewsGP reforms will prevent 'Mid Staffs' scandals
The government’s commissioning reforms will help prevent scandals such as those at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust by ensuring GPs do what “they ought to do”, the health secretary has said.
-
NewsUnions issue strike warning over pension reform
The government has been warned that implementing radical changes to public sector pensions could “light the blue touch paper” for strikes by millions of workers.
-
HSJ Local
Hull trust surplus back on track
FINANCE: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust is back on track to make a £4.8m surplus.
-
NewsMulti-million pound technology boost for health boards
A £4m IT system is to be set up across four health boards in Scotland to allow doctors to access the same “snapshot” of patient information.
-
HSJ Local
Western Sussex Hospitals stabilises infection control record
PERFORMANCE: The trust had been free of MRSA for the months of December and January, according to latest board papers.
-
HSJ Local
York FT moves towards acquisition
STRUCTURE: Two sets of NHS trusts at different ends of the country are considering merging in response to the threat of falling income and the need to achieve foundation status.
-
HSJ Local
Concerns raised over children's waiting times at University Hospitals of Leicester
PERFORMANCE: Concerns have been raised over the length of time children are having to wait for elective treatment at University Hospitals of Leicester Trust.
-
HSJ Local
Leicester Partnership landed with performance notice
PERFORMANCE: A performance notice has been issued to Leicester Partnership Trust over crisis resolution.
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Page3
- Page4
- Page5
- Next Page